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The purpose of this [[Literature]] Workgroup is to co-ordinate and organise the work on, and improvement of, articles on Literature. If you'd like to join as an Author, please add yourself to Category:Literature Authors, introduce yourself on the [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/board,48.0.html Literature Workgroup Forum] and start improving articles.  If you think you have the expertise to be an Editor, take a look at the instructions on  [http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html how to become an editor] and then add yourself to Category: Literature Editors.
The purpose of this [[Literature]] Workgroup is to co-ordinate and organise the work on, and improvement of, articles on Literature. If you'd like to join as an Author, please add yourself to Category:Literature Authors, introduce yourself on the [http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/board,48.0.html Literature Workgroup Forum] and start improving articles.  If you think you have the expertise to be an Editor, take a look at the instructions on  [http://www.citizendium.org/cfa.html how to become an editor] and then add yourself to Category: Literature Editors.


== [[CZ:Core_Articles/Humanities|Literature Core Articles]] ==
==Core Articles ==
'''What are core articles?''' Core articles are our top priority articles – articles that are most in demand and most important for us to include in an encyclopedia that has any hope of being comprehensive.


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These are the highest priority articles items for the Literature Workgroup, though they have not yet been finalized by a Workgroup editor. In order to keep the list manageable, this list should be contain no more than about 200 items total. Thus only those articles should be added which can reasonably be considered of ''paramount'' importance for the Literature WG.
 
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In the listings below, articles (links) rendered in blue are those articles which have at least some substantive content beyond a mere definition. Those articles rendered bold-faced link to lemma articles, which have no content beyond the bare definition only. If the link is rendered magenta, then not even a lemma article has been created. The bar graph to the left of those articles which have substantive content (blue link) indicates the level of completeness of the article.
 
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{{rpl|Russian literature}}
{{rpl|Russian literature}}
{{rpl|Women in literature}}
{{rpl|Women in literature}}
{{rpl|Novel}}
{{rpl|Poetry}}


===Writers===
===Writers===
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<H4>Ancient writers</H4>
<H4>Ancient writers</H4>


{{rpl|Homer}}
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{{rpl|Virgil}}
{{rpl|Aeschylus||:}}
{{rpl|Aristophanes||:}}
{{rpl|Euripides||:}}
{{rpl|Sophocles||:}}
{{rpl|Ovid||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Virgil||:}}


<H4>Medieval writers</H4>
<H4>Medieval writers</H4>


{{rpl|Dante Alighieri}}
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{{rpl|Geoffrey Chaucer}}
{{rpl|Dante Alighieri||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Petrarch}}   
{{rpl|Geoffrey Chaucer||:}}
 
{{rpl|Gottfried von Straßburg||:}} 
{{rpl|Hartmann von Aue||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Omar Khayyam||:}}
{{rpl|Petrarch||:}}
{{rpl|Chrétien de Troyes||:}}   
{{rpl|Wolfram von Eschenbach||:}} 
<h4>Children's and young adult literature</H4>
<h4>Children's and young adult literature</H4>


{{rpl|Dr. Seuss}}
{{rpl|Dr. Seuss||:}}
{{rpl|Rudyard Kipling}}
{{rpl|Hans Christian Andersen||:}}
{{rpl|Rudyard Kipling||:}}
{{rpl|Lewis Carroll||:}}
{{rpl|Brüder Grimm||:}}


<H4>Science-fiction writers</H4>
<H4>Science-fiction writers</H4>


{{rpl|Isaac Asimov}}
{{rpl|Isaac Asimov||:}}
{{rpl|Arthur C. Clarke}}
{{rpl|Margaret Atwood||:}}
{{rpl|Robert A. Heinlein}}
{{rpl|Lois McMaster Bujold||:}}
{{rpl|Ursula Le Guin}}
{{rpl|C. J. Cherryh||:}}
{{rpl|Jack Vance}}
{{rpl|Arthur C. Clarke||:}}
{{rpl|Jules Verne}}
{{rpl|Robert A. Heinlein||:}}
{{rpl|H. G. Wells}}
{{rpl|Ursula K. Le Guin||:}}
{{rpl|Stanisław Lem||:}}
{{rpl|Larry Niven||:}}
{{rpl|Jack Vance||:}}
{{rpl|Jules Verne||:}}
{{rpl|H. G. Wells||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Philip K. Dick||:}}


<H4>American writers</H4>
<H4>American writers</H4>


{{rpl|Washington Irving}}
{{rpl|Washington Irving||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|James Fenimore Cooper}}
{{rpl|James Fenimore Cooper||:}}
{{rpl|Ralph Waldo Emerson}}
{{rpl|Ralph Waldo Emerson||:}}
{{rpl|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow}}
{{rpl|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow||:}}
{{rpl|Nathaniel Hawthorne}}
{{rpl|Henry David Thoreau||:}}
{{rpl|Herman Melville}}
{{rpl|Nathaniel Hawthorne||:}}
{{rpl|Louisa May Alcott}}
{{rpl|Herman Melville||:}}
{{rpl|Emily Dickinson}}
{{rpl|Louisa May Alcott||:}}
{{rpl|Edgar Allan Poe}}
{{rpl|Emily Dickinson||:}}
{{rpl|Mark Twain}}
{{rpl|Edgar Allan Poe||:}}
{{rpl|Willa Cather}}
{{rpl|Mark Twain||:}}
{{rpl|Robert Frost}}
{{rpl|Willa Cather||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Ernest Hemingway}}
{{rpl|Robert Frost||:}}
{{rpl|John Steinbeck}}
{{rpl|Ernest Hemingway||:}}
{{rpl|William Faulkner}}
{{rpl|John Steinbeck||:}}
{{rpl|Vladimir Nabokov}}
{{rpl|William Faulkner||:}}
{{rpl|Toni Morrision}}
{{rpl|Vladimir Nabokov||:}}
{{rpl|Toni Morrision||:}}
{{rpl|Thornton Wilder||:}}
{{rpl|Arthur Miller||:}}
{{rpl|John Updike||:}}
{{rpl|Ezra Pound||:}}
 


<H4>English writers</H4>
<H4>English writers</H4>


{{rpl|Jane Austen}}
{{rpl|Jane Austen||:}}
{{rpl|William Blake}}
{{rpl|William Blake||:}}
{{rpl|Charlotte Brontë}}
{{rpl|Charlotte Brontë||:}}
{{rpl|Emily Brontë}}
{{rpl|Emily Brontë||:}}
{{rpl|Robert Browning}}
{{rpl|Robert Browning||:}}
{{rpl|John Bunyan}}
{{rpl|John Bunyan||:}}
{{rpl|Samuel Taylor Coleridge}}
{{rpl|Samuel Taylor Coleridge||:}}
{{rpl|Joseph Conrad}}
{{rpl|Joseph Conrad||:}}
{{rpl|Charles Dickens}}
{{rpl|Charles Dickens||:}}
{{rpl|John Donne}}
{{rpl|John Donne||:}}
{{rpl|T.S. Eliot}}
{{rpl|T.S. Eliot||:}}
{{rpl|Thomas Hardy}}
{{rpl|Thomas Hardy||:}}
{{rpl|Samuel Johnson}}
{{rpl|Samuel Johnson||:}}
{{rpl|John Keats}}
{{rpl|John Keats||:}}
{{rpl|Rudyard Kipling}}
{{rpl|Rudyard Kipling||:}}
{{rpl|John Milton}}
{{rpl|John Milton||:}}
{{rpl|George Orwell}}
{{rpl|George Orwell||:}}
{{rpl|William Shakespeare}}
{{rpl|William Shakespeare||:}}
{{rpl|George Bernard Shaw}}
{{rpl|George Bernard Shaw||:}}
{{rpl|Percy Bysshe Shelley}}
{{rpl|Percy Bysshe Shelley||:}}
{{rpl|Alfred, Lord Tennyson}}
{{rpl|Alfred, Lord Tennyson||:}}
{{rpl|Oscar Wilde}}
{{rpl|Oscar Wilde||:}}
{{rpl|Virginia Woolf}}
{{rpl|Virginia Woolf||:}}
{{rpl|William Wordsworth}}
{{rpl|William Wordsworth||:}}


<H4>French writers</H4>
<H4>French writers</H4>


{{rpl|Albert Camus}}
{{rpl|Albert Camus||:}}
{{rpl|Guy de Maupassant}}
{{rpl|Guy de Maupassant||:}}
{{rpl|Alexandre Dumas}}
{{rpl|Alexandre Dumas||:}}
{{rpl|Victor Hugo}}
{{rpl|Victor Hugo||:}}
{{rpl|Jean Baptiste Moliere}}
{{rpl|Jean Baptiste Moliere||:}}
{{rpl|Marcel Proust}}
{{rpl|Marcel Proust||:}}
{{rpl|Jean Racine}}
{{rpl|Jean Racine||:}}
{{rpl|George Sand}}
{{rpl|George Sand||:}}
{{rpl|Voltaire}}
{{rpl|Stendhal||:}}
{{rpl|Voltaire||:}}
{{rpl|Honoré de Balzac||:}}
{{rpl|François Rabelais||:}}
{{rpl|Georges Perec||:}}


<H4>German writers</H4>
<H4>German writers</H4>


{{rpl|Bertolt Brecht}}
{{rpl|Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen||:|}}
{{rpl|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe}}
{{rpl|Bertolt Brecht||:}}
{{rpl|Thomas Mann}}
{{rpl|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe||'''New '''}}
{{rpl|Theodor Fontane||:}}
{{rpl|Thomas Mann||:}}
{{rpl|Heinrich Heine||:}}
{{rpl|Johann Nestroy||:}}
{{rpl|Friedrich Schiller||:}}
{{rpl|Arno Schmidt||:}}
{{rpl|Arthur Schnitzler||:}}
{{rpl|Günter Grass||:}}
{{rpl|Gotthold Ephraim Lessing||:}}
{{rpl|Heinrich von Kleist||:}}
{{rpl|Gerhart Hauptmann||:}}
{{rpl|Rainer Maria Rilke||:}}
{{rpl|E.T.A. Hoffmann||:}}
{{rpl|Paul Celan||:}}


<H4>Irish writers</H4>
<H4>Irish writers</H4>


{{rpl|James Joyce}}
{{rpl|James Joyce||:}}
{{rpl|William Butler Yeats}}
{{rpl|William Butler Yeats||:}}
{{rpl|Laurence Sterne||:}}
{{rpl|Jonathan Swift||:}}


<H4>Japanese writers</H4>
<H4>Japanese writers</H4>


{{rpl|Matsuo Bashō}}
{{rpl|Ryunosuke Akutagawa||:}}
{{rpl|Yasunari Kawabata}}
{{rpl|Kobo Abe||:}}
{{rpl|Masuji Ibuse||:}}
{{rpl|Kenzaburo Oe||:}}
{{rpl|Natsume Soseki||:}}
{{rpl|Junichiro Tanizaki||:}}
{{rpl|Yukio Mishima||:}}
{{rpl|Matsuo Bashō||:}}
{{rpl|Yasunari Kawabata||:}}


<H4>Russian writers</H4>
<H4>Russian writers</H4>


{{rpl|Anton Chekhov}}
{{rpl|Anton Chekhov||:}}
{{rpl|Fyodor Dostoevsky}}
{{rpl|Fyodor Dostoevsky||:}}
{{rpl|Nikolai Gogol}}
{{rpl|Nikolai Gogol||:}}
{{rpl|Maxim Gorky}}
{{rpl|Maxim Gorky||:}}
{{rpl|Mikhail Lermontov}}
{{rpl|Mikhail Lermontov||:}}
{{rpl|Boris Pasternak}}
{{rpl|Boris Pasternak||:}}
{{rpl|Alexander Pushkin}}
{{rpl|Alexander Pushkin||:}}
{{rpl|Alexander Solzhenitsyn}}
{{rpl|Alexander Solzhenitsyn||:}}
{{rpl|Leo Tolstoy}}
{{rpl|Leo Tolstoy||:}}
{{rpl|Ivan Turgenev}}
{{rpl|Ivan Turgenev||:}}


<H4>Scottish writers</H4>
<H4>Scottish writers</H4>


{{rpl|Robert Burns}}
{{rpl|Robert Burns||:}}
{{rpl|Sir Arthur Conan Doyle}}
{{rpl|Arthur Conan Doyle||:}}
{{rpl|Walter Scott}}
{{rpl|Walter Scott||:}}


<H4>South African writers</H4>
<H4>South African writers</H4>


{{rpl|Alan Paton}}
{{rpl|Alan Paton||:}}
 
<H4>Spanish writers</H4>
 
{{rpl|Miguel de Cervantes||:}}
{{rpl|Federico Garcia Lorca||:}}
{{rpl|Calderón de la Barca||:}}
<H4>Yiddish Writers</H4>
 
{{rpl|Isaac Bashevis Singer||:}}
{{rpl|Sholem Aleichem||:}}


<H4>Unsorted by nationality</H4>
<H4>Unsorted by nationality</H4>


{{rpl|Margaret Atwood}}
{{rpl|Margaret Atwood||:}}
{{rpl|Henrik Ibsen}}
{{rpl|Henrik Ibsen||:}}
{{rpl|Giovanni Boccaccio}}
{{rpl|August Strindberg||:}}
{{rpl|George Eliot}}
{{rpl|Giovanni Boccaccio||:}}
{{rpl|Aldous Huxley}}
{{rpl|George Eliot||:}}
{{rpl|Thomas Pynchon}}
{{rpl|Aldous Huxley||:}}
{{rpl|Thomas Pynchon||:}}
 
{{rpl|Lord Byron||:}}
{{rpl|Umberto Eco||:}}
{{rpl|Salman Rushdie||:}}


===Literary genres===
===Literary genres===
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{{rpl|Haiku}}
{{rpl|Haiku}}
{{rpl|Historical novel}}
{{rpl|Historical novel}}
{{rpl|Mystery}}
{{rpl|Mystery fiction}}
{{rpl|Novel}}
{{rpl|Novel}}
{{rpl|Poetry}}
{{rpl|Romance literature|Romance}}
{{rpl|Romance literature|Romance}}
{{rpl|Science fiction}}
{{rpl|Science fiction}}
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{{rpl|Allegory}}
{{rpl|Allegory}}
{{rpl|Anticlimax}}
{{rpl|Anticlimax}}
{{rpl|Antihero}}
{{rpl|Anti-hero}}
{{rpl|Climax}}
{{rpl|Climax}}
{{rpl|Confessional poetry}}
{{rpl|Confessional poetry}}
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{{rpl|Aestheticism}}
{{rpl|Aestheticism}}
{{rpl|Classicism}}
{{rpl|Classicism}}
{{rpl|The Enlightenment}}
{{rpl|Modernism}}
{{rpl|Modernism}}
{{rpl|Postmodernism}}
{{rpl|Postmodernism}}
{{rpl|Realism}}
{{rpl|Realism}}
{{rpl|Romanticism}}
{{rpl|Romantic Era}}
{{rpl|Surrealism}}
{{rpl|Surrealism}}
{{rpl|Stream of consciousness}}
{{rpl|Stream of consciousness}}
{{rpl|Symbolism}}
{{rpl|Symbolism}}


===Already-written core articles in this workgroup===
===Works===
#[[Lord Byron]]
 
#[[Poetry]]
'''''Nota Bene''''': Please list here only those works of exceptional importance whose authorship is either unknown or about whose author very little is known.
 
{{rpl|Arthurian legends}}
{{rpl|Beowulf}}
{{rpl|Poem of the Cid}}
{{rpl|Chanson de Roland}}
{{rpl|Lazarillo de Tormes}}
{{rpl|Mabinogion}}
{{rpl|The Tale of Genji}}
{{rpl|The Epic of Gilgamesh}}
{{rpl|Mahabharata}}
{{rpl|Ramayana}}
{{rpl|Carmina burana}}
{{rpl|Nibelungenlied}}
{{rpl|The Works of Ossian}}
{{rpl|One Thousand and One Nights}}


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Writers

Ancient writers

Homer: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Aeschylus: Add brief definition or description
Stub Aristophanes: Add brief definition or description
Stub Euripides: Add brief definition or description
Stub Sophocles: Add brief definition or description

New Stub Ovid: Add brief definition or description

Developing Article Virgil: Add brief definition or description

Medieval writers

New Stub Dante Alighieri: Add brief definition or description

Geoffrey Chaucer: Add brief definition or description
Stub Gottfried von Straßburg: Add brief definition or description

New Developing Article Hartmann von Aue: Add brief definition or description

Stub Omar Khayyam: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Petrarch: Add brief definition or description
Chrétien de Troyes: Add brief definition or description
Wolfram von Eschenbach: Add brief definition or description

Children's and young adult literature

Dr. Seuss: Add brief definition or description
Stub Hans Christian Andersen: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Rudyard Kipling: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Lewis Carroll: Add brief definition or description
Brüder Grimm: Add brief definition or description

Science-fiction writers

Stub Isaac Asimov: Add brief definition or description
Margaret Atwood: Add brief definition or description
Stub Lois McMaster Bujold: Add brief definition or description
Stub C. J. Cherryh: Add brief definition or description
Stub Arthur C. Clarke: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Robert A. Heinlein: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Ursula K. Le Guin: Add brief definition or description
Stanisław Lem: Add brief definition or description
Larry Niven: Add brief definition or description
Jack Vance: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Jules Verne: Add brief definition or description

New Stub H. G. Wells: Add brief definition or description

Philip K. Dick: Add brief definition or description

American writers

New Washington Irving: Add brief definition or description

James Fenimore Cooper: Add brief definition or description
Ralph Waldo Emerson: Add brief definition or description
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Henry David Thoreau: Add brief definition or description
Stub Nathaniel Hawthorne: Add brief definition or description
Herman Melville: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Louisa May Alcott: Add brief definition or description
Emily Dickinson: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Edgar Allan Poe: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Mark Twain: Add brief definition or description

New Stub Willa Cather: Add brief definition or description

Stub Robert Frost: Add brief definition or description
Ernest Hemingway: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Steinbeck: Add brief definition or description
William Faulkner: Add brief definition or description
Stub Vladimir Nabokov: Add brief definition or description
Toni Morrision: Add brief definition or description
Stub Thornton Wilder: Add brief definition or description
Stub Arthur Miller: Add brief definition or description
John Updike: Add brief definition or description
Stub Ezra Pound: Add brief definition or description


English writers

Developing Article Jane Austen: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article William Blake: Add brief definition or description
Charlotte Brontë: Add brief definition or description
Emily Brontë: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Robert Browning: Add brief definition or description
Stub John Bunyan: Add brief definition or description
Stub Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Add brief definition or description
Joseph Conrad: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Charles Dickens: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Donne: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article T.S. Eliot: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Thomas Hardy: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Samuel Johnson: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Keats: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Rudyard Kipling: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article John Milton: Add brief definition or description
George Orwell: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article William Shakespeare: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article George Bernard Shaw: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Percy Bysshe Shelley: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Add brief definition or description
Stub Oscar Wilde: Add brief definition or description
Virginia Woolf: (1882-1941) Feminist author, essayist, and critic wrote A Room of One’s Own (1929) [e]
William Wordsworth: Add brief definition or description

French writers

Albert Camus: Add brief definition or description
Guy de Maupassant: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Alexandre Dumas: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Victor Hugo: Add brief definition or description
Jean Baptiste Moliere: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Marcel Proust: Add brief definition or description
Jean Racine: Add brief definition or description
Stub George Sand: Add brief definition or description
Stendhal: Add brief definition or description
Stub Voltaire: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Honoré de Balzac: Add brief definition or description
François Rabelais: Add brief definition or description
Georges Perec: Add brief definition or description

German writers

Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Bertolt Brecht: Add brief definition or description

New Stub Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Add brief definition or description

Stub Theodor Fontane: Add brief definition or description
Stub Thomas Mann: Add brief definition or description
Heinrich Heine: Add brief definition or description
Johann Nestroy: Add brief definition or description
Friedrich Schiller: Add brief definition or description
Arno Schmidt: Add brief definition or description
Arthur Schnitzler: Add brief definition or description
Günter Grass: Add brief definition or description
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Add brief definition or description
Heinrich von Kleist: Add brief definition or description
Gerhart Hauptmann: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Rainer Maria Rilke: Add brief definition or description
E.T.A. Hoffmann: Add brief definition or description
Paul Celan: Add brief definition or description

Irish writers

Stub James Joyce: (1882-1941) Irish novelist who portrayed life in Ireland in Dubliners; also wrote Ulysses, often regarded as one of the 20th century's greatest English language novels. [e]
Developing Article William Butler Yeats: Add brief definition or description
Laurence Sterne: Add brief definition or description
Stub Jonathan Swift: Add brief definition or description

Japanese writers

Ryunosuke Akutagawa: Add brief definition or description
Kobo Abe: Add brief definition or description
Masuji Ibuse: Add brief definition or description
Kenzaburo Oe: Add brief definition or description
Natsume Soseki: Add brief definition or description
Junichiro Tanizaki: Add brief definition or description
Yukio Mishima: Add brief definition or description
Matsuo Bashō: Add brief definition or description
Stub Yasunari Kawabata: Add brief definition or description

Russian writers

Anton Chekhov: Add brief definition or description
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Add brief definition or description
Nikolai Gogol: Add brief definition or description
Maxim Gorky: Add brief definition or description
Mikhail Lermontov: Add brief definition or description
Boris Pasternak: Add brief definition or description
Alexander Pushkin: Add brief definition or description
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Leo Tolstoy: Add brief definition or description
Ivan Turgenev: Add brief definition or description

Scottish writers

Robert Burns: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article Arthur Conan Doyle: Add brief definition or description
Walter Scott: Add brief definition or description

South African writers

Alan Paton: Add brief definition or description

Spanish writers

Developing Article Miguel de Cervantes: Add brief definition or description
Federico Garcia Lorca: Add brief definition or description
Calderón de la Barca: Add brief definition or description

Yiddish Writers

Isaac Bashevis Singer: Add brief definition or description
Sholem Aleichem: Add brief definition or description

Unsorted by nationality

Margaret Atwood: Add brief definition or description
Henrik Ibsen: Add brief definition or description
Developing Article August Strindberg: Add brief definition or description
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Literary genres

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